When Ventricular Cerebrospinal Fluid Assessment Misleads: Basal Meningitis and the Importance of Lumbar Puncture Sampling

The diagnosis of central nervous system (CNS) infection relies upon analysis of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). We present 4 cases of CNS infections associated with basal meningitis and hydrocephalus with normal ventricular CSF but grossly abnormal lumbar CSF. We discuss CSF ventricular–lumbar compositio...

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Yayımlandı:Open Forum Infect Dis
Asıl Yazarlar: Khan, Sadid F, Macauley, Thornton, Tong, Steven Y C, Xie, Ouli, Hughes, Carly, Hall, Nicholas D P, Mahanty, Siddhartha, Jennens, Ian, Street, Alan C
Materyal Türü: Artigo
Dil:Inglês
Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Oxford University Press 2019
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ID Case
Online Erişim:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6667712/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31363769
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz324
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